Cultural Studies
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Course Introduction
Cultural Studies explores the ways in which culture shapes and reflects social identities, power relations, and everyday life. This interdisciplinary course examines concepts such as ideology, representation, and discourse, drawing from fields like sociology, anthropology, literature, and media studies. Students analyze cultural artifacts, practices, and institutions, considering how they are influenced by factors like gender, race, class, and globalization. Through critical reading, discussion, and research, learners gain tools to understand and challenge cultural norms, fostering a deeper appreciation of diversity and the complex dynamics of contemporary societies.
Recommended Textbook Arts and Culture An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume 4th Edition by Janetta Benton
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) Which of the following does not characterize Renaissance art and culture?
A) Naturalism of the arts
B) Interest in classical values
C) Frivolous subject matter
D) Rise of humanism
E) Linear perspective
Answer: C
Q2) One of the first examples of what we call a "Renaissance" man was __________.
A) Raphael
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Dante Alighieri
E) Francis I
Answer: B
Q3) A baptistery is a sacred structure used for celebrating the Eucharistic ceremony.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Renaissance in Northern Europe
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Q1) The scholar and Christian humanist __________ refused to support King Henry VIII's split with the Roman Church.
A) Philip II
B) Thomas More
C) Charles V
D) Mary of Hungary
E) Eleanor of Aquitaine
Answer: B
Q2) Iconoclasm is the systematic celebration of religious icons.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) __________ proposed the scientific method.
A) Francis Bacon
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Newton
E) Kepler
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Baroque Age
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Q1) Rachel Ruysch is known for her "flower pieces," a kind of still life painting developed during the Baroque.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Poussin was the opposite of Rubens __________.
A) in terms of the using line rather than color as the dominant element of design
B) in focusing his attention on portrait painting
C) in uniting every stroke by the curving movements of his design
D) in the sheer exuberance of his lush forms
E) none of the above
Answer: A
Q3) Miguel de Cervantes developed the picaresque, a form of novel that details the life of a rogue or knave who wanders from adventure to adventure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Adam Smith was an ardent opponent of the Industrial Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris is an example of architecture in the __________ style.
A) Romantic
B) Rococo
C) Neoclassical
D) Baroque
E) Renaissance
Q3) Ludwig van Beethoven's body of music moves one from an era of heavy reliance on the classical to a more romantic mood.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does the term "Enlightenment" refer to?
Q5) Outline the key events that characterize the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and examine how Adam Smith justified the practices of the factory owners.
Q6) Trace the development of the novel during the eighteenth century.
Q7) How does the Neoclassical garden compare to the gardens of the Baroque era?
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Chapter 5: Romanticism and Realism
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Q1) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were two proponents of the factory system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a favorite of the czarist regime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Beethoven's Symphony No.6 ("The Pastoral") is an example of __________.
A) an aria
B) absolute music
C) program music
D) a capella music
E) both A and B
Q4) John Constable was an English landscape painter whose work conveyed a sense of "the enduring attachment to place so fundamental to rural life."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Giuseppe Verdi was Italy's most important Romantic composer.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What was Wagner's contribution to music of the nineteenth-century?
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Chapter 6: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
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Q1) The Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin left his wife and five children and moved to Tahiti.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Monet's Haystacks at Giverny was one of a series of paintings of haystacks that Monet painted to study __________.
A) how colors appear when juxtaposed
B) horizontal and vertical definition
C) the way in which changes in light and weather alter what we see
D) the architectural structures of Europe
E) asymmetrical composition
Q3) Edgar Degas has been called a "linear Impressionist" because of his precise draftsmanship.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What do the differences between Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles suggest about varying attitudes of the late nineteenth century?
Q5) What new directions did sculpture take in the nineteenth-century and whose work is a good example of these new attitudes?
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Chapter 7: Chinese Civilization after the Thirteenth Century
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Q1) What purpose did Scholars' Rocks serve?
Q2) __________ is described as the "poet of the brush."
A) Shen Zhou
B) Qiu Ying
C) Bei Dao
D) Zhu Da
E) Cao Xuequin
Q3) The __________ dynasty was a short, but nevertheless a culturally significant, reign.
A) Yuan
B) Ming
C) Qing
D) People's Republic of China
E) Tang
Q4) The Mongol ruling class of the Yuan dynasty kept the primary offices of governmental administration to themselves because they wanted to maintain their ethnic separateness.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain what is meant by "the patriarchal nature" of Confucian society.
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Chapter 8: Japanese Civilization after the Fifteenth Century
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Q1) Basho Matsuo is known for his __________.
A) woodblock prints
B) Noh theater
C) musical compositions
D) landscape painting
E) haiku poetry
Q2) What is koto music, how did it develop, and what is its importance in Japan?
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Q3) A geisha in training is called a maika.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Confucianism impact the organization of society during the Edo period?
Q5) The Tokugawa shogunate unified the country of Japan and isolated it from outside world.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the differences between Noh and Kabuki?
Q7) Summarize the Japanese approach to architecture during the Muromachi and Momoyama periods.
Q8) What is a koan and what is its purpose?
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Chapter 9: Modern Africa and Latin America
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Q1) How did colonialism encourage the rapid expansion of Islam?
Q2) The Yoruba have images carved of ere ibeji or __________.
A) wandering minstrels
B) "the mothers"
C) the Oba
D) the gods
E) twins
Q3) What two separate cultural and economic traditions make up Latin America?
Q4) In 1800, the transatlantic slave trade was reaching its peak, with nearly __________ enslaved Africans transported to the Americas each year.
A) 250,000
B) 100,000
C) 75,000
D) 300,000
E) 500,000
Q5) What is the role of African music, and what is its most distinctive feature?
Q6) Delineate the elements of magic realism in the literature of Latin America and provide an example of its use.
Q7) What developments began the decline of slavery in the early 1800s?
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Chapter 10: Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of __________.
A) pointillism
B) blank verse
C) action painting
D) color field painting
E) automatism
Q2) The painting, __________, is best described as depicting the impossible and irrational with absolute conviction.
A) Georgia O'Keeffe's Yellow Calla
B) Charles Demuth's Aucassin and Nicolette
C) Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory
D) Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
E) Piet Mondrian's Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue
Q3) Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does the term avant garde refer to in terms of art, music, or literature of the early twentieth-century? List three to five of the avant garde movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
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Chapter 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
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Q1) How do Jean-Paul Sartre's, Simone de Beauvoir's and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical views of Existentialism differ?
Q2) On December 7, 1941 __________.
A) Nixon resigned
B) John F. Kennedy was assassinated
C) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
D) Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor
E) none of the above
Q3) What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?
Q4) Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist artist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast the Guggenheim Museum to the Center National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou.
Q6) The emperor of Japan during World War II was Hirohito.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Sol LeWitt is classified as a Pop art sculptor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Q1) Globalization refers to the tendency in contemporary societies toward an increasing pluralism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Adrienne Rich is an important spokesperson for the __________.
A) Native American peoples
B) Vietnam veterans
C) feminist consciousness
D) civil rights movement
E) workers' movement
Q3) __________ photographed herself in a variety of "self-portraits," whose variety and artificiality serve to announce that the "self" is a fictionalized construction.
A) Judy Chicago
B) Cindy Sherman
C) Lisa Fifield
D) Eleanor Antin
E) Susan Rothenberg
Q4) What are the pros and cons of globalization?
Q5) What is "Semiotics"?
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